The day after Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna appealed for a fair distribution of wealth and asked whether the wealth being generated in our society is causing economic disparity, statistics published by the National Statistics Office (NSO) showed that the gap between the rich and the poor is actually growing.

The Archbishop’s call on Independence Day, for authorities to pay more attention to the weaker members of our society, is even more urgent when one considers that the number of people at risk of poverty in 2016 stood at 69,920, according to the NSO…